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Double tier points from the BA Holidays promotion are (finally) starting to post

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One of the most attractive promotions currently running is the ‘double tier points’ offer from BA Holidays.

If you book a ‘flight and hotel’ or ‘flight and car’ package for 5+ nights via BA Holidays, for trips where the outbound flight takes place by 31st October 2022, you will receive double tier points on your flights.

This could be hugely attractive. For example, until 31st December 2022, you only need 450 Executive Club tier points for Silver status, which gets you lounge access. Even if you didn’t requalify, you’d get a soft landing for the next year, giving a year of Bronze and its seat selection benefit.

Double tier points from BA Holidays starting to post

You could get a Silver card from scratch in one trip. For example, booking Manchester to Corfu in Club Europe, you would get (40 + 80 + 80 + 40) x 2 = 480 tier points. You get a holiday and up to 25 months of BA lounge access and free seat selection, depending on the timing of your British Airways year end.

Your soft landing to Bronze would give a further 12 months of ‘free seat selection within seven days of departure’, meaning up to 37 months of benefits.

There is one snag. Whilst this offer has now been running for almost 18 months, British Airways has been unable to find a way of punctually posting the double tier points. A few people have reported receiving them, often after making a complaint, but they appear to be in the minority.

(To be honest, I think BA Holidays made a mistake by not making this an ‘opt in’ offer. This has substantially increased the administration required, and the majority of the people who are now receiving bonus tier points won’t even know they were ever due them.)

Over the last couple of weeks, however, I have received multiple emails from people who have finally received their points. Here is one I got over the weekend:

“Have just received 280 BA Tier points today that emanated from a CW flight booking LHR-JFK-BOS-LHR outbound 17 Dec 2021 inbound 4 Jan 2022!!! Unbelievable!”

So, there is progress of sorts here.

How many tier points would you need for BA status?

This offer is still running for another two months. If you wanted to push for status it seems that the odds of actually getting your double tier points to turn up have improved.

Remember that, until 31st December:

  • Bronze status in BA Executive Club requires 225 tier points (was 300)
  • Silver status in BA Executive Club requires 450 tier points (was 600)
  • Gold status in BA Executive Club requires 1,125 tier points (was 1,500)

That said, the posting is still random:

  • some people are getting them backdated to the date of their original flights, which is what the rules say will happen
  • some people are getting them posted with the current date, which has messed up their plans to earn status (although some other readers have found this convenient!)

If BA Holidays has now found a way of posting the double tier points, it should be less of an issue. Hopefully they will post promptly after your flight.

Full details of the ‘double tier points’ offer can be found on BA Holidays here. Remember that you need to book by 22nd October and take your outbound flight by 31st October.

PS. If you are still missing bonus tier points from this offer, you will find various emails you can use to complain in this dedicated thread in our forum. Sometimes they get a result, sometimes they don’t …..

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Comments (91)

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  • ianM says:
    29 Aug29 August 07:38

    So if you do a trip now but the bonus tier points don’t drop into your account until after Dec 31st, are they credited to the date of the holiday – and are they set against the lower 450 tier point qualification ?

    • AJA says:
      29 Aug29 August 09:47

      That’s how it should work, the TP should be back dated to the same date as the original TPs post.

  • Ian says:
    29 Aug29 August 07:42

    January.

    Realistically I will probably not fly until perhaps December.

    That will be to the USA but will not be enough to reach 1125 for Gold. Shame, but such is life.

    Miss being Gold! Just missed out on it being extended throughout the pandemic. Ours downgraded to Silver just before it all went sour.

    • Ian says:
      29 Aug29 August 07:44

      Sorry that was a reply to Chris, not sure what happened there

    • ChrisC says:
      29 Aug29 August 08:02

      How many TPs will you miss the 1125 by by the end of December?

      Depending on that it might be worth a quick weekend away or even an out and back in a day.

      • Gordon says:
        29 Aug29 August 08:17

        @Ian, If it helps and your 50 Tier Points short, I’m carrying out a run for silver in oct before my expiry on 8/12/22, LGW-AMS CE out Econ back 4 hours in AMS before flight back to Blighty.£200. Found this the most economic route for approximately 50 Tier points in my case….I was going to make a short break of it in Amsterdam but then you have all the other expenses, Taxis accommodation etc and thought better of it, My OH is not too pleased….

  • vol says:
    29 Aug29 August 07:46

    I want to book a quick 5 night holiday to Spain but when I look at the flights, they “operated by Iberia/Iberia express/Air Nostrum” – would these count for double tier points, or even any tier points from BA? TIA

    • Richie says:
      29 Aug29 August 09:37

      Double check the T&Cs but the flights may need BA flight numbers to comply.

    • Nick says:
      29 Aug29 August 10:10

      IB/I2/YW ops earn TP as normal. For the BA Hols double offer they count if (and only if) sold with BA flight numbers.

  • John Dodd says:
    29 Aug29 August 07:52

    My double tier was posted within2 weeks. Down side it was the day my card expired so they were wiped out within 24 hours.
    Hell of a job getting them re-credited.

  • NorthernLass says:
    29 Aug29 August 07:55

    Are they just giving out the extra TPs to anyone who had a BA holiday during the relevant period? Hypothetical example, 640 TPs for a one-night stay!

    • Ian says:
      29 Aug29 August 07:59

      That would probably be a gamble if you have not already taken it.

      Although knowing BA IT who knows….

    • Alan Vickers says:
      29 Aug29 August 08:06

      5 nights minimum for double tier points

      • NorthernLass says:
        29 Aug29 August 10:53

        Except, it’s not …

        • BSI1978 says:
          29 Aug29 August 12:01

          It’s not what NorthernLass? I thought these trips needed 5 nights hotel stay to count?

          • ATP says:
            29 Aug29 August 15:07

            I think that was a reference to the ‘mistakes’ that BA’s IT have made…

          • NorthernLass says:
            29 Aug29 August 15:31

            So they said, but BA’s IT doesn’t seem to have got the message. YMMV, as they say 😜

  • Dawn says:
    29 Aug29 August 08:27

    The only way I managed to get mine credited for two trips was to join Flyertalk and message the BAMissingAvios. They appeared very promptly after this.

  • Bobby says:
    29 Aug29 August 08:37

    Been looking at this for ages, still can’t find a reasonably priced 5 night trip from Manchester.

    Price is often at least double that from London 🤔

    • Nick says:
      29 Aug29 August 10:16

      I did GLA for a lower price than London. YMMV of course but it’s definitely possible to get bargains from the regions.

    • NorthernLass says:
      29 Aug29 August 10:55

      If you don’t need the 4 flights you could book a holiday from LON and use avios for the MAN connections. This can be a much cheaper option and also gives you access to some of the flight times which don’t appear when you’re searching for a package deal.

    • Mike Hunt says:
      29 Aug29 August 12:36

      Not so much Levelling Up from BA !

  • Sammyj says:
    29 Aug29 August 09:17

    Slightly o/t, but I’ve just received 420 TPS plus 19k Avios each for redemption flights in First to the USA, paid using Avios and 2 Amex companion vouchers. Got an email out of the blue saying ‘congratulations, you’re now Bronze’ a couple of days after the flight – zero status or TPs and no other flights taken since pre-food. 3 of the 4 travellers on the booking have had the same, the 4th person has received nothing, as I would have expected for all of us.

    Is this something that happens often? Are BA likely to realise and claw back? I’d take other half and one child on a TP run for 30
    extra points to get silver if I thought it would stay on the account!

    • ChrisC says:
      29 Aug29 August 09:27

      It happens occasionally usually when what were originally reward flights get rebooked into another date bucket but isn’t something to rely on and when it happens it can be inconsistent even for people on the same booking.

      BA won’t come after you for them.

      • Gordon says:
        29 Aug29 August 09:55

        It’s a bonus when it happens. But as you say very sporadic, But is happening more than you think,I believe the booking goes back in as a cash booking once amended. Good old BA IT system working to our advantage for a change, @Sammyj, I would not shout about it though 😉.

    • AJA says:
      29 Aug29 August 09:52

      I’d say go for the TP run. There’s really very little prospect of BA clawing the TP or Avios back

    • Rob says:
      29 Aug29 August 10:20

      I’d say 50% of amended redemptions are posting with tier points at the moment and a decent % of non-amended ones.

      • Gordon says:
        29 Aug29 August 12:21

        @Rob, WOW that many. Where does this figure come from. Or is it just a rough estimate…

        • Rob says:
          29 Aug29 August 13:43

          Based on all the redemptions I have taken this year … my daughter is now a Silver cardholder. My son isn’t, such is the randomness.

          • Gordon says:
            29 Aug29 August 14:20

            Oh Ok, Could this be a clever ploy by BA to whet peoples appetite to chase status 🤔

    • Sammyj says:
      30 Aug30 August 18:50

      Thanks guys – very nice to know! Strange that 3/4 get it. It’s my least favourite child who missed out anyway, so no big deal!
      (By that I mean the older one, who doesn’t want to come away with us much anyway, before anyone rings social services!!)

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